{"id":2561,"date":"2016-08-29T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2016-08-29T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T10:00:08","slug":"dr-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/blog\/dance-info-news-trends\/dr-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A few words with our student, Dr. James Bersalona&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dance is an enjoyable health promoting physical activity, which Dr. James Bersalona incorporated into his lifestyle. Dancing is a great way to stay fit without feeling like you\u2019re performing a chore. \u201cAs far as I\u2019m concerned,\u201d says James, \u201cit\u2019s the perfect form of exercise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. James Bersalona decided to learn how to dance when he was invited to a friend\u2019s wedding. Now, he is passionately committed to it, and will mark his sixth anniversary with the hobby in October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/08\/Less-weight-000008601462_Medium.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2563\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/08\/Less-weight-000008601462_Medium-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"Less weight.\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2563\" \/><\/a>Through the studio, James has entered several competitions and finds that training for them is an \u201cabsolutely great\u201d way to stay in shape. Since the start of his dancing career, James has lost 80 pounds. An athlete who used to play football, James found that dancing in competitions has been more challenging than any sport he played previously.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his competing career, James has found himself steadily growing more confident in his dancing. In the beginning, James says, he was solely focused on perfecting each step and winning as much as possible. James has attended an impressive range of competitions in Las Vegas, Cincinnati, Puerto Rico, and Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/08\/Boy-and-girl-dancing-ballroom-dance-000084804527_Medium.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2562\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/08\/Boy-and-girl-dancing-ballroom-dance-000084804527_Medium-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Boy and girl dancing ballroom dance\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2562\" \/><\/a>Now, he competes because of the enjoyment he gets from the process, saying that \u201cwinning\u2019s not really the focus anymore. Now, this is supposed to be something fun. It\u2019s just fun, and if I win, that\u2019s the icing on the cake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of James\u2019 favorite memories of competing is when, while dancing the rumba with his instructor Anastasia, the two of them forgot their steps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe both tried to recover,\u201d he says. \u201cBut at a certain point we realized it wasn\u2019t going to happen, and we started laughing hysterically. Everyone around us was dancing, while we were keeled over laughing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few words with our student, Dr. James Bersalona&#8230; Dance is an enjoyable health promoting physical activity, which Dr. James Bersalona incorporated into his lifestyle. Dancing is a great way to stay fit without feeling like you\u2019re performing a chore. \u201cAs far as I\u2019m concerned,\u201d says James, \u201cit\u2019s the perfect form of exercise.\u201d Dr. James [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance-info-news-trends","category-lifestyle-self-improvement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}